Sorry Brexiteers, but Parliament doesn’t want No Deal, and MPs will kill it off

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Those who think leaving without a deal is an alternative to Mrs May's proposal are mistakenCredit:
Patrick Blower

By voting against the PM’s plan, Tory hardliners are ensuring Brexit will fail

The law states that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union on Friday March 29 at 11pm. This is set out in primary legislation, the EU Withdrawal Act, with the qualification that it can only be changed if a Minister of the Crown proposes a regulation to do so.

It is thus the default option that we leave the EU then, with or without a deal – a fact that is an undoubted encouragement to most of the Tory MPs planning to vote down Theresa May’s Brexit deal. Their reasoning seems to be that if she, or a new Conservative prime minister, asked the EU to remove the controversial Irish backstop, then either the EU...